Maximal Resistance Training in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa - A Case Report Series.

Objective: Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has one of the highest mortality rates of all mental health disorders, low recovery rate and is associated with widespread endocrine dysfunction. Resistance training (RT) has been consistently shown to provide beneficial effects on health outcomes that are often negatively affected by AN, however participation in exercise is controversial for individuals with AN. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of maximal RT as an add-on to standard of care in patients with AN.

Can sulphonylurea addition to lifestyle changes help to delay diabetes development in subjects with impaired fasting glucose? The Nepi ANtidiabetes StudY (NANSY).

The Nepi ANtidiabetes StudY (NANSY) is a 5-year randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Swedish primary care, examining whether the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and retinopathy (separately reported) would be delayed in 40- to 70-year-old subjects with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) who, in addition to lifestyle changes, were treated with either placebo or low-dosage sulphonylurea (SU) (1-mg glimepiride; Amaryl). Of 274 subjects (163 men, 111 women), 138 were allocated to placebo (46.0% men, 56.

Snuff use associated with abdominal obesity in former smokers.

Aim: To describe the consumption of snuff in a rural male population and to explore associations between snuff use and obesity.

Participants And Methods: Tobacco use was explored in 834 men aged 30-75 years old who participated in a cross-sectional population survey in the municipality of Vara (participation rate was 81%). Self-reported questionnaires assessed the habits of smoking and snuff use.

Falls among dizzy patients in primary healthcare: an intervention study with control group.

The objective of this study is to investigate whether vestibular rehabilitation can improve balance, reduce self-perceived handicap because of dizziness and, if possible, reduce falls among dizzy patients in primary healthcare. The study also finds out which of the balance measures and measure of self-perceived handicap, if any, predicted the risk of falls. The design of this study is an intervention study with control group.

Dizziness among patients with whiplash-associated disorder: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To investigate whether vestibular rehabilitation for patients with whiplash-associated disorder and dizziness had any effect on balance measures and self-perceived handicap.

Design: Randomized, controlled trial.

Subjects: Twenty-nine patients, 20 women and 9 men, age range 22-76 years.

Utilisation of antihyperglycaemic drugs in ten European countries: different developments and different levels.

Aims/hypothesis: The aim of this study was to compare developments in the utilisation of antihyperglycaemic drugs (AHGDs) in ten European countries.

Subjects And Methods: Data on the yearly utilisation of insulin and oral AHGDs were collected from public registers in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, England, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain, and were expressed as defined daily doses per 1,000 inhabitants per day.

Results: Total AGHD utilisation increased everywhere, but at different rates and levels.

Neighborhood social participation, use of anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs, and women's propensity for disability pension: a multilevel analysis.

Aims: The increasing number of people on disability pension in Sweden is of concern for Swedish policy-makers, and there is a need for a better understanding of the mechanisms behind disability pension. We investigated (i) whether women living in the same neighborhood have a similar propensity for disability pension that relates to neighborhood social participation, and (ii) whether there is an association between anxiolytic-hypnotic drug (AHD) use and disability pension in women that is modified by the neighborhood context.

Methods: We used multilevel logistic regression with 12,156 women aged 45 to 64 (first level) residing in 95 neighborhoods (second level) in the city of Malmö (250,000 inhabitants), Sweden, who participated in the Malmö Diet and Cancer Study (1991-96).

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo among elderly patients in primary health care.

Background: Dizziness influences well-being in old age, and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a common cause. The condition is diagnosed using the Hallpike maneuver and treated by the particle-repositioning maneuver or habituation exercises.

Objective: To identify patients with BPPV among a variety of diagnoses represented by the ICD-10 diagnosis R42 in people 65 aged years and older who visited primary health care because of vertigo and dizziness.

Balance performance and self-perceived handicap among dizzy patients in primary health care.

Objective: To study the diagnostic panorama at a primary health care centre where the physiotherapist is specialized in dizziness. To study balance measures of dizzy patients as well as measures of self-perceived handicap and to analyse whether these measures correlate.

Design: Retrospective study of computerized medical records.

Research methods courses as a means of developing academic general practice. Fifteen years' experience from Sweden and Denmark.

Since 1989, the authors have given courses in research methodology, and these courses are now given at six venues in southern Sweden, as well as in Denmark. The course corresponds to half a year's full-time study, with half the time devoted to lectures and studies of literature, while the rest is spent on an individual project under supervision. To enable part-time study, the course extends over 1(1/2) years.

Self-rated health in relation to age and gender: influence on mortality risk in the Malmö Preventive Project.

Aims: A study was undertaken to examine whether poor self-rated health (SRH) can independently predict all-cause mortality during 22-year follow-up in middle-aged men and women.

Subjects And Methods: Data are derived from a population-based study in Malmö, Sweden. This included baseline laboratory testing and a self-administered questionnaire.

Effects of specific rehabilitation for dizziness among patients in primary health care. A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To investigate whether specific rehabilitation for patients with dizziness has any effect on clinical balance measures and/or the apprehension of dizziness measured with a visual analogue scale (VAS).

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Subjects: Forty-two patients, 50 years or older with dizziness of central or age-related origin, identified in primary health care.

Unclaimed prescriptions after automated prescription transmittals to pharmacies.

Objective: To assess the extent of and the reasons for unclaimed prescriptions, primary non-compliance, after automated transmittals to pharmacies.

Methods: Cross-sectional study in 3 health care districts (population 240,000) in the southernmost of Sweden on unclaimed electronic prescriptions (e-prescriptions), transmitted to 21 pharmacies during the period of 3 months (2000) and semi-structured interview study with patients not claiming their e-prescriptions transmitted to 4 pharmacies during a period of 3 weeks (2001).

Main Outcome Measure: Proportion of unclaimed e-prescriptions of total number of (dispensed and unclaimed) e-prescriptions and reasons for primary non-compliance.

Is there an interaction between self-rated health and medication with analgesics and hypnotics in the prediction of disability pension?

Aims: Several studies have shown that self-rated health (SRH) is associated with drug use. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible interaction between SRH and use of analgesics and hypnotics and its ability to predict disability pension.

Methods: In 1974-78.

Rapid test, throat culture and clinical assessment in the diagnosis of tonsillitis.

Objectives: Our aim was to identify a group of patients with clinical signs of tonsillitis to whom antibiotics could be prescribed without further diagnostic actions, and to compare the outcome of clinical assessment with the result of an antigen detection test using culture as the gold standard.

Methods: During two winter months, patients aged > or =4 years attending for sore throat at three primary health care centres in Malmö, Sweden, were examined. Odds ratios, sensitivities, specificities and predictive values were calculated for clinical assessment and for an antigen detection test.

The relation between self-rated health, socioeconomic status, body mass index and disability pension among middle-aged men.

The aim of this study was to assess the relations between self-rated health (SRH), socioeconomic status (SES), body mass index (BMI) and disability pension. Five birth-year cohorts of middle-aged male residents in Malmö, Sweden, were invited and 5313 with complete data constituted the cohort in this study. Each subject was followed for approximately 11 years.

Self-rated health as a predictor of disability pension and death--a prospective study of middle-aged men.

Objective: Self-rated health (SRH) is increasingly attracting attention as a predictor of morbidity and mortality while its relation to impaired function has been given less momentum. The aim of this study was to assess the relation between SRH and the risk of being awarded a disability pension and premature death.

Methods: Five birth-year cohorts of middle-aged men were invited to a screening programme and were followed for approximately 11 years.

The use of analgesics and hypnotics in relation to self-rated health and disability pension--a prospective study of middle-aged men.

Aims: This cohort study on urban middle-aged men investigates the association between the use of analgesics and hypnotics, self-rated health (SRH) and disability pension.

Methods: Five birth-year cohorts of middle-aged, urban, Swedish men were invited to a screening programme and were followed for approximately 11 years.

Results: Out of all the subjects (n = 5798), 12.

Risk factors for respiratory tract infections in children aged 2-5 years.

Objective: To study risk factors for respiratory tract infections (RTIs) in children aged 2-5 years.

Design: A questionnaire was used to chart the number of visits to doctors and the number of antibiotics courses because of RTIs during a 1-year period. The risk factors studied were age, sex, birth weight, breastfeeding, atopy, siblings, smoking and childcare.

Mortality in elderly men with low psychosocial coping resources using anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs.

Objective: Insufficient coping with stress may lead to increased susceptibility for disease and death. Use of anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs has been suggested as a coping strategy, and some opinions have proposed their use as preventive medication. The aim of this study was to estimate if use of anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs counters the increased mortality observed in individuals lacking other coping strategies such as emotional support and social participation.

Alcohol consumption and disability pension among middle-aged men.

Purpose: To analyze the relation between alcohol consumption and the risk of disability pension among middle-aged men.

Methods: In the mid-seventies, complete birth-year cohorts of middle-aged male residents in Malmö, Sweden, were invited to participate in a general health survey. The 3751 men with complete data who constituted the cohort in this study were followed for 11 years.

Socioeconomic inequalities and disability pension in middle-aged men.

Background: The issue of inequalities in health has generated much discussion and socioeconomic status is considered an important variable in studies of health. It is frequently used in epidemiological studies, either as a possible risk factor or a confounder and the aim of this study was to analyse the relation between socioeconomic status and risk of disability pension.

Methods: Five complete birth year cohorts of middle-aged male residents in Malmo were invited to a health survey and 5782 with complete data constituted the cohort in this prospective study.

Disability pension in Malmöhus county: aspects on long-term financial effects.

The purpose of this study was to estimate the financial costs of disability pension in order to compare the financial burden and the numerical distribution of disability pension by main diagnostic groups. During three months all new disability pensions (n = 944) granted in Malmöhus county were registered. During a follow-up of approximately two and a half years, 40 subjects died and 15 pensions expired.

Body mass index and disability pension in middle-aged men--non-linear relations.

Background: Obesity has, in a number of studies, been found to correlate to disability and mortality, primarily due to diseases of the circulatory and musculoskeletal systems. In addition, an excess mortality among underweight subjects has been observed in previous studies.

Methods: Five complete birth-year cohorts (1926-1930) of male residents in Malmö (n = 7697) were invited to the survey at the Department of Preventive Medicine, Malmö General Hospital, and 5926 (77%) attended with complete data.